I see, that's sad. Well seeing as how I've lived 2 and a half decades being perceived as a cishet white guy from the US who has absolutely been influenced by the effects of that perception, you all have my full permission to gulag and reeducate my ass if I ever have a dumbass take lol

Why is that? I would have thought that hexbear of all places would have men that understand that. I say that, though literally my only knowledge of this website is this thread and the existence of the pig poo balls, though I've never actually seen the thing.

I adore all my trans comrades in the mega here, but seriously, shout out ash and TerminalEncounter specifically for helping me to absolutely beat the shit out of my egg. Their replies to my posts are always such a potent acid that melt away the denial and doubt

I did have to actually point it out haha. Yesterday came and went and I'm not sure anyone noticed, or maybe didn't know how to ask me what's going on. Which I suppose I should have foreseen lol. But I'd already gotten over the mental barrier of actually changing the name and I knew people had seen it by this point so I did a whole "heyo you may have noticed I changed my name and pronouns in chat. Please call me this from now on. Thanks!" message. I got a bunch of thumbs up react emoji and the next day it's like they never called me anything else.

No one really called much attention to it like I expected them to, and that was nice. It really felt like I'd never sent the message and they'd just always called me that. Basically best case scenario happened.

I just had a meeting with my coworkers and they all called me my preferred name all the way through and it felt so aggressively normal? It was nice.

That's probably what I'll end up doing eventually

My wonderful sister has offered to teach me makeup, but she lives 3 hours away and neither of us have cars 😭😭

Fuck US car dependency

I don't think I ever actively imagined myself as the opposite gender, but I definitely preferred daydreaming where the subject of the thought was a woman. I never thought of her as myself, but I very rarely ever daydreamed as myself.

I changed my name and slapped a [she/her] on my display name in the work group chat hoping everyone will eventually simply catch on 👀

This will be me one day. Not anywhere close to now though haha

The manual razor is certainly the way. The smoothness feeling is immaculate

I want to be 5, but I'm 6 for sure